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Re: LaserJet necromancy - starting to doubt my own sanity.

6-Dec-23 5:13

Rich Leyshon wrote:
I've had this old HP LaserJet for years and try to give it a little occasional exercise to stop it seizing up.

I've been wondering about that.

When my previous employer shut down (as part of an acquisition), nobody wanted the big LaserJet printer it had owned for many years - I don't know how long exactly. I think the company was roughly 6 years old at the time, so assuming it was bought brand new when the company was founded, it was 6 years old when I brought it home.

That was in 2006. Which means it's now 23 years old.

I clearly remember using it with XP--in fact I still have the driver installer for XP in my software archive. I'm still using it today with Windows 10, and a lot of Linux distros pick it up automatically. These days if I power it up twice every 3 months, it had a busy quarter - I really hardly ever print. But, I'll still say it has served me well, with no indication after all this time it's about to run into mechanical failures (fingers crossed).

It's a LaserJet 4350, with - I think - all accessories you could get for it at the time. There's two 500-sheet trays, a duplexer, I believe is what it's called (which lets you print on both sides of a sheet), and even a stapler (assuming you're not trying to staple more than 5-6 pages together). It's big and heavy, so I think that's why nobody wanted it.

Daniel Pfeffer6-Dec-23 6:26

Daniel Pfeffer

6-Dec-23 6:26

dandy72 wrote:
It's big and heavy, so I think that's why nobody wanted it.

It's probably also an electricity guzzler, at least compared to modern laser printers.

OTOH, if you turn it on only a couple of times a quarter - who cares?

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Re: LaserJet necromancy - starting to doubt my own sanity.

dandy726-Dec-23 12:07

Re: LaserJet necromancy - starting to doubt my own sanity.

6-Dec-23 12:07

Exactly. It goes so long between print jobs, I wouldn't even rely on its sleep mode.

Roger Wright6-Dec-23 6:52

Roger Wright

6-Dec-23 6:52

Sounds like the usual HP lunacy. I recently bought a new HP 24" T630 printer, downloaded the software and installed it. Every time I print, it informs me that my Preview software is out of date (just downloaded) and has to be updated, but it then proceeds to print correctly. THey used to be fairly reliable, but since HP opted to lump all of their drivers and support software into a single package, nothing has worked very well.

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Re: LaserJet necromancy - starting to doubt my own sanity.

jschell6-Dec-23 8:26

jschell

6-Dec-23 8:26

I expect in this case the printer was one from the period of time when HP was making money from selling printers and not the mayhem now.

Re: LaserJet necromancy - starting to doubt my own sanity.

charlieg7-Dec-23 2:20

charlieg

7-Dec-23 2:20

took the words right out of my mouth, though the driver nonsense is pretty much HP.

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Has never been more appropriate.

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BernardIE53175-Dec-23 23:24

BernardIE5317

5-Dec-23 23:24

from as article titled "These 10 scientists are on the cusp of changing the world" link below the quote below made me laugh out loud .
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Quote:
... a multidisciplinary team of biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and more in analyzing more than 49,000 eggs from about 1,400 bird species. ... The team translated the shapes of the eggs into mathematical models and incorporated data such as habitat, diet, and how many eggs each species laid at a time. They found that one of the best predictors of egg shape was flight ability. “Birds that are strong fliers—birds that tend to fly a lot or migrate long distances—tend to lay eggs that are more elliptical, or more pointy,” says Stoddard. The team published its findings in the journal Science in 2017.

Mike Hankey5-Dec-23 23:33

Mike Hankey

5-Dec-23 23:33

Wow, important stuff? Smile | :)

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BernardIE53175-Dec-23 23:39

BernardIE5317

5-Dec-23 23:39

maybe they will figure out how to add lightness to aircraft utilizing bird egg shell technology . seems logical . birds fly also .

Daniel Pfeffer6-Dec-23 4:16

Daniel Pfeffer

6-Dec-23 4:16

BernardIE5317 wrote:
birds fly also .

So do insults. Perhaps we should start swearing at the plane, instead of the airline. Smile | :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Mycroft Holmes6-Dec-23 13:05

Mycroft Holmes

6-Dec-23 13:05

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
start swearing at the plane

Wait you mean you don't, every time I squeeze into an economy seat the plane get a right roasting!

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dandy726-Dec-23 4:49

6-Dec-23 4:49

BernardIE5317 wrote:
add lightness to aircraft utilizing bird egg shell technology . seems logical . birds fly also

Eggs, not so much.

Daniel Pfeffer6-Dec-23 6:28

Daniel Pfeffer

6-Dec-23 6:28

Eggs fly very nicely, but they need to work on their landing skills.

Smile | :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

dandy726-Dec-23 12:06

6-Dec-23 12:06

Bah. Technicalities.

Roger Wright6-Dec-23 6:54

Roger Wright

6-Dec-23 6:54

No doubt this vitally important research was funded with tax money, right?

Will Rogers never met me.

how to understand Hindi video

PIEBALDconsult9-Dec-23 13:25

PIEBALDconsult

9-Dec-23 13:25

Because chickens are such great flyers.

Southmountain5-Dec-23 18:44

Southmountain

5-Dec-23 18:44

I find this video, but it is in Hindi.
How can I understand it?

Can someone explain or put his conclusion here?

diligent hands rule....

GKP19925-Dec-23 18:58

GKP1992

5-Dec-23 18:58

Although somewhat broken, if you play the video with auto translated subtitles, you may get the gist of it.
Other wise I can put a summary for you when I find the time to watch the whole video.

Southmountain6-Dec-23 3:44

Southmountain

6-Dec-23 3:44

please write a summary when you get time. I think it is worthy your time Rose | [Rose]

diligent hands rule....

megaadam5-Dec-23 22:26

megaadam

5-Dec-23 22:26

And looking for an English video on the subject, or text, was not applicable ?

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

BernardIE53175-Dec-23 23:36

BernardIE5317

5-Dec-23 23:36

if you wish to make a project out of it the cc text which by the way can be placed wherever you wish can be screen captured then w/ OCR results sent to Google Translate and of course accept the summed errors .

Rich Leyshon6-Dec-23 1:00

Rich Leyshon

6-Dec-23 1:00

Learn Hindi! Big Grin | :-D

dandy726-Dec-23 4:47

6-Dec-23 4:47

Google says there's 48 officially recognized dialects of Hindi.

One of the articles near the top of that search goes on to say India has a total of 19,569 languages and dialects.

Where should one start? Smile | :)

jschell6-Dec-23 8:27

jschell

6-Dec-23 8:27

dandy72 wrote:
Where should one start?

42?